ITT550 NETWORK DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

February 9, 2011

CASE STUDY ON LOGICAL DESIGN

Objectives

In this project you are required to design a network for a typical company that requires its computers to
communicate with each other and on the internet.

Company Requirements

A new education centre has just opened up with the aim of offering IT related courses to its students,
competing with other universities. It aims to provide student labs, provide computers for its education and
administrative staff and also set up a web server. The company has just purchased one T1 connection
providing 1.5Mbps for upload and download. It has also purchased the 193.188.34.128/26 network from
its ISP.

It terms of PCs, the centre has the following plans:

 It wants to setup 1 web server to host the centre's website and also 1 file server on which its
students can access course materials from home. Each of these will be allocated a different DNS
name.
 The centre wants to set up two computer labs, each containing 15 PCs with each having internet
connectivity.
 Additionally it wants to allocate 7 PCs, each of which will be placed in different classrooms and
are to be used by the course tutor. These PCs also require internet connectivity.
 2 PCS will be given to the system administrator, with the facility to provide any type of Internet
services on them. Also 5 PCs will be made available for administration and another 3 for tutors.
Please note that management have decided that these PCs should not get internet connectivity but
should still be able to access the web and file server.
 And finally a wire-less network should be made available to students which can allow students
internal access to the file and web server but not to the internet.
 As long as enabling access to internet is exposing to a lot of threats, implementation of security to
protect network is a compulsory. Plan for the secure network in your design.
 There is a system for private and confidence document management should be applied for a team
consist of 5 members based on client server environment.

Your task is to come up with a logical, efficient and scalable network design that will be suitable for this
centre. The company has allowed an adequate budget to purchase any switches and routers that may be
required, yet obviously does not want to spend more than necessary.

Design Details

When drawing up your network designs make sure you split the design up in a way that emphasizes the
function of the components. In addition, make sure that no malicious user would be able to circumvent the
system. Additionally, make sure that all sub-networks are split up allowing them the fastest access
possible depending on their requirements. Also keep the design as simple as possible allowing efficient
troubleshooting while guaranteeing the least downtime in the system. As a hint always split up networks
in terms of function, since PCs with similar function most probably will often communicate between
themselves. Also do not forget about the ISP link!!

Deliverables

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 ITT550 NETWORK DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
February 9, 2011

Build a document giving all the necessary network designs (enough information should be provided that
will allow any technician to build your network structure from scratch). You are requested to depict the
network setup by means of diagrams showing the division of the networks and their interconnections.

You will submit the hardcopy complete report (explanation and network design) before Monday, 14
February 2011. Please make use of standard depictions for components. In you report should contain the
configuration for all respective devices. Make sure you include the subnet masks and the default route.